Welcome Nora!

Nora Marie Carter was born on Monday, March 5th, 8:30am. She weighed in at 8lb, 6.5 oz and was 20.5 inches long. I was much relieved to finally have her on the outside instead of all scrunched inside!





The boys came over to visit after school. Ryan was pretty excited--he wanted to hold her with John and did his little jitter/smiling/tongue-wagging happy dance.







Trevor was a bit more cautious and didn't want to hold her yet. He went through looking at all her itty bitty features--fingers, feet, toes and all that, but was happy to let me hold her while he checked her out.






Opening her eyes more


We stayed in the hospital two nights before heading home. Trevor is probably the most smitten with his baby sister.

Trev reading her his homework reader and singing her a song

Superheroes hold babies too


Bapa's got a pile now

 Ryan, Grandma Linda, and Nora


Happy Birthday Party grandma and Trev planned while we were in the hospital

One week old now:

What John's been up to...

With the bigger yard comes room for a big ol' swing set. John spent a good two weekends plus a little extra putting the entire thing together. It's pretty cool.

It was delivered by a very put out delivery man who was not happy to see a pregnant lady open the door... luckily John was there to help unload several hundreds of pounds or so of swing set. I would not be excited to find this many pieces of anything. Fortunately John kind of was and got straight to work separating it all.
























And of course the boys thought the boxes it came in were pretty awesome.





Day 1




Day 2




Day 2 Stability Testing


Day 3 (weekend 2)


And John's Birthday


Yeah Birthday!


Day 4


Way more fun than the boxes it came in

Christmas Trip (2011)

A little late on the upload, but here's some pictures from our trip to Alaska over Christmas.


Waiting for the bus ride to the airport--it was a bit drizzly so we were being pretty tough


Waiting for the airplane. And proof that they can sit quietly and color.


Pre-Christmas Lego building

There was quite a bit of snow while we were there so we got the whole Winter Wonderland experiance. I was impressed by the boys ability to tough it out in the cold (even though Trevor was a bit stunned to feel his nose cold too). The second week was more of a challenge with the temperatures dropping to something unbearable.


Sledding at the park




Opening stockings Christmas morning


Trevor concluded that we got peanuts in our stockings for being a little bit bad this year








Uncle Sam helping with lego assembly




Trev liked grandma's fur muffs a lot


Visiting the children's museum--Trevor pulling himself up


Sign next to it--science is fun! And so is drilling oil!


Visiting Uncle Sam's house and playing with his legos

Trains, Angels, Bells, and Airplanes

Christmas time is here... and moving time... and travelling time... So it's been a bit busy. Here are a bunch of things that have been going on for us over the past weeks.

The first couple pictures are from a really cool train track ride that a group puts on every year--it lasts a good ten minutes or so around a large area that's covered with different light displays and music.





They had a Santa to visit too--the boys were very in the moment and said "candy canes" when Santa asked them what they wanted for Christmas.



Trevor had his Angel Choir Performance at church:



And the video:


Ryan was pretty excited for his debut on stage with the bell choir. This is just the setting up phase where he's trying to wait for the start. Trevor is more of an old pro at it:



And here's the song:



Ryan got to ride on Jayson's airplane, as he is now to officially be a middle child and cannot be neglected. Jayson, Katie, John, and Ryan flew down to Lancaster for the morning/afternoon.